and then they take off.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Public Transportation
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Tag: public transport
Busses
A bus in Wiesbaden, powered by ecologically produced electricity.
The bus of the South African rugby team during the Word Cup 2015.
A bus rushing off from the Christmas market near the water tower in Mannheim.
And finally a photo from my cell phone, taken from a train model set.
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A triangular relationship
Our local tram connects the cities Mannheim and Heidelberg and our town (definitely not a city) in an almost perfect triangle. It’s been going since before the first world war.
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Public transport.
It’s not perfect but it is better
for the environment. Individual transportation is comfortable but often not the best solution. In Germany, public transport is called ÖPNV = Öffentlicher Personennahverkehr, and always a topic of conversation.
A train pulls into a Munich subway station.
Same train, same station. Stationary but with selective colouring.
Night time stop for an intercity bus in Germany.
And finally, shades of things to come: public transport in miserable winter weather.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge with public transport as theme.
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OEG: Oh, ewiges Gewackel – O, everlasting jiGgling!
One of the first tramlines between towns jn Germany (as opposed to inner-city lines) was the OEG (Oberrheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft) which ran (and still runs) on a circular track between Mannheim – Weinheim – Heidelberg. Today it is connected to various other tram systems serving the larger Rhein-Neckar-area. Locally, it is still affectionally known as OEG = Oh, Ewiges Gewackel, or O, Everlasting jiGgling, even though the carriages are much more comfortable today. The official name – Linie 5 – has not caught on.
Waiting for the ÖG.
And here she comes. (Yes, this electric train is thought of as female.)
For A Photo a Week Challenge: Public transportation.
More trains, trams, buses, and the like, can be found here.
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